Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Walker v. Sanders in 2016?

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
(Source: Michael Vadon)

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will announce his candidacy
for President of the United States in 2016. And run he should. With his
impressive array of accomplishments as a conservative leader and brilliant campaigner,
Walker can overwhelm primary opponents without even trying. While US Senators
like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have some legislative accomplishments, they have no
lasting executive achievements. Another US Senator, Marco Rubio, has waffled on
more issues than a house of pancakes, supporting amnesty, then backing away,
then embracing it once again. Refusing to take a firm stance on immigration or
Common Core, Rubio is a Hispanic version of Jeb Bush, establishment values
without the funding or media hype.

As for the other senators and governors with respectable and
qualified credentials, their long-lasting impression in their states and on the
country will not captivate conservative primary voters like Walker’s.

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton presided over the foreign policy free-fall of the Obama Administration.
Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican, is a laughingstock. Martin O’Malley must
explain to millions of Democratic primary voters why a Republican is cleaning
up his mess in Maryland. Then there’s the male version of Elizabeth Warren, “Weekend
at Bernie” Sanders, who shares the same pathological hatred for Walker as Wisconsin’s
defeated public sector unions. “We need to strengthen trade unionism in this
country”,Sanders contended, even though
Act 10 benefited working families, schools, and cities.

2 comments:

Walker has no accomplishments. His state is a mess. The Kochs back him but he is hugely unpopular (or unknown) to large swaths of Americans. He will slink back to Wisconsin and watch Jeb Bush lose by a landslide in 2016. And it will be AWESOME.